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and five against the American league
club from the same city.
Standridge worked four innings
against the Macks and did a fine job
of work. He was scored on twice,
but one of the counts came on two
successive bad throws by Zimmer
man. He allowed five hits, fanned
four and gave nary a pass.
Today winds up the carded games
with the Mackmen. Canny Connie
is making a radical change in his
team, and it appears that Rube Old
ring will start the season at third
base, with Walsh, Murphy and Strunk
in the outfield. Kopf, touted for Ba
ker's place, has failed to hit. Old
ring has had previous infield experi
ence and is an average workman for
the inner defense. Larry Lajoie is
clouting the ball viciously in the
spring games.
Jim Scott could go in today and
pitch a big league game for the White
Sox, were the season on. He is in
better condition tha nany man in the
south side staff and is the logical se
lection to pitch the first game. He
has been pitching nine-inning games
on the coast for the past two weeks
and is becoming more effective every
day. Yesterday he gave Oakland five
hits and the Sox won, 5 to 0.
From now to the opening of the
season a marked improvement in the
playing of the White Sox can be
looked for. A week remains for
games against league teams in Cali
fornia and then comes the homeward
hike, with battles en route" against
representatives of various minor
leagues.
Before California is left behind
Buck Weaver should be out in uni
form, strong enough to take part in
the game. He was in the grandstand
yesterday when the Seconds were de
feated by Los Angeles, 16 to 4, and
said he was anxious to grab a bat.
His operation was an entire success,
but he is still weak from its results
and Manager Rowland refuses to
take a chnace of retarding his recov
ery by letting him start too soon.
All along the line the Sox batting
is looking up, and Brief, Eddie Collins
and Felch will prevent the club being
an aggregation of hitless wonders
this season. Baserunning, too, is be
ing brushed up five sacks were stolen
yesterday, the Collins pair, Black
burne, Schalk and Felch each swip
ing one. Schalk stole home.
Cicotte and Faber couldn't stop
Los Angeles for the second. Breton
and Fournier each made two Sox hits.
Manager Tinker of the Whales is
satisfied that he has a good ball team,
one capable of giving anything in the
Federal league a hot argument
through the 1915 season. His infield,
outfield and backstopping depart
ments need no comment. But the
pitching staff will be made stronger
between now and the opening of the
pennant dash.
To this end Claude Hflndrix and
Mordecai Brown, veterans, are tak
ing some of the young fellows in
hand and teaching them some tricks
pf the profession. Guy Beard, the
best-looking prospect in the new
drag, is coming in for especial treat
ment. Brown is giving him all his
time and the youngster is being
taught to conceal his delivery and
throw various shoots with the same
motion, a necessary virtue in a suc
cessful pitcher.
Dave Black, the young southpaw, ,
is also being tutored diligently, and'
Ad Brennan is doing the major por-
tion of the instructing for his fellow
left-hander.
William Huey defeated Jevne, 50 to
46, in the international three-cushion
billiard tourney and kept his slate
clean. Huey went out with a run of
seven, when it seemed he would be
defeated. Other scores: Moore 50,
Hahman 41; Daly 50, Ellis 47; De Oro
50, Kieckhefer 36. Today's matches;
Morin and Eames, Jevne and Capronn
Daly and Eames, Kickhefer and Hah
man or Jevne. ,
Sinai Social Center won the indoor
swimming championships of the